Frogman comes up trumps

The check-in for some flights out of Perth to our nation's northern extremities can quite often look more like a swap meet at the local football oval.

Last Tuesday one guy had a car exhaust system, another a surfboard, and yet another a trolley full of vegetables.

Another turned up with two sets of luggage.  One obviously full of scuba diving gear.  Our inside operative tells us that when presented with a need to shell out $70 in excess for his dive gear to accompany him, the passenger grabbed his bag and stormed away.

Twenty minutes later he returned with a small bundle of clothes under his arm, but wearing a full scuba set-up (minus scuba tank and weights) for check-in.

Always accommodating, the check-in staff struck a deal that if the passenger removed the flippers and mask, he could fly in his wetsuit and BCD.

We hear the guy with the exhaust system looked on with envy. END

The wearing of wetsuit story also reminds me of an incident a few years back now.  I think it happened at the Sydney airport .. but it might have been at Brisbane.  A German guy was acting really weird during check-in time at the airport.  What made him stand out in the queue was that he was wearing his wetsuit .. and yes, it was boiling hot outside so naturally everyone was staring at him.  I don't know how long the authorities took to deal with him .. but I do recall his missed that actual flight out but he sure complained about it endlessly once he eventually got home as he wrote to anyone who would publish his story of mis-treatment at the airport.

Reminds me also of the time when I was accompanying Bill, our eldest WAUPS member, up to Carnarvon.  He had booked passage for himself and his dawg about 3 months before the actual trip.  Dawg weighs 41kgs + cage 12kgs = 53kgs.  During the process of checking in he was advised that they would not be able to carry his dawg as they were over-weighted as it was.  So Bill promptly handed over the dawg lead and said "all yours, you can look after the dawg for the next week then".  Amazing how fast they can move to change it so is someone else whose excess luggage is pulled from being carried.  They assume that you will automatically accept things and put your dawg in to a kennel for the time you are away or wait for it to be flown up the following day.  As we were heading straight on to Coral Bay after shopping for food & grog in Carnarvon there was no way we would wanted to have to drive back over 250kms because the airport would not honour the pre-purchased ticket on the day.
Viv

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